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All of the terrible and great event of time all rolled into one time line. This time line is formed around Australia and all of the things that shaped our country and our world. From the dying out of the tasmanian tiger, to the sinking of the titanic, all the way to the first man on the moon, all that shaped australia is wrapped up in this timeline. Please Enjoy!!!
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Federation -- Australia becomes a new nation
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Australians First Serve in The Boer War
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End of the Boer War
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First areoplane flight, by the Wright Brothers in USA
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The Titanic sinks by hitting an iceberg. An estimate of 1,514 people drowned and women and children were the only ones allowed on the life boats.
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Australia enters World War 1
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The ANZAC's (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps) land at Gallipoli. Many take their life for their families and for our freedom.
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Completion of Transcontinental Railway Linking Brisbane to Perth
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The Influenza Epidemic after the first World War ended up killing more people than the war. It was an out break of the 'Spanish Flu' being the first of two out breaks. (the second being in 2009, an outbreak of the Swine Flu)
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Estimated 12 million killed by the end of World War 1
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QANTAS starts flying planes in Australia
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The Start of the Great Deppression
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First Colour TV Broadcast in Australia
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Phar Lap Wins Melbourne Cup
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First Australian born Governor-General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed.
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The opening of The Sydney Harbour Bridge
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The very last Tasmanian Tiger dies in captivity. Some believe that the Tasmanian Devil is starting to follow the Tigers footsteps, or should I say, pawprints.
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Australia enters World War 2
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Darwin is bombed for the first time during World War 2
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Australain Scientist Howard Florey discovers how to mass-produce penicillin, thus saving millions of lives around the world.
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Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Estimated 55 million dead in World War 2
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First Australian Involvement in United Nations Peacekeeping in Indonesia
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The first mass-produced car in Australia, the Holden, is completed
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Universal Declariation Of Human Rights By U.S.A.
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Australian first serve in the Korean War
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She was appearently killed by a dingo at Uluru. Lindsay
Chamberlain(mother), was tried for the murder of Azaria and was sentenced to life inprisonment. There are still some who believe that Lindsay did murder her, but as it is an unsolved case and it is assumed that the dingoes really did get her. The jacket that was found was buried, but was perfectly folded and there was blood in the faimlies car. Some police assumed that one of Azaria's brothers may have killed her, but no proof is provided -
Victa Mower is Invented
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the Koren War ended
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The song 'Rock around the clock' by Bill Haley and The Comets starts a new era. the era of Rock 'n' Roll.
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Tv's are sold and broadcasts are being made for some of the first times in australia
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Melbourne hosts Oympic Games. The mascots were
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First Dog in Space 'Lakia'
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Yuri Gugarin becomes the first human in space.
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The British band, The Beatles, tour Australia from the 11/6 - 30/6
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First Australian Soldiers sent to South Vietnam.
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Decimal currency replaces pounds, shillings and pence.
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The first human heart transplant was perfromed in South Africa.
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Neil Armstrong becomes first human and man on moon.
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Soth Tasmania added onto World Heritage list.
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Cyclone Tracy hits darwin, turning a well recovered city into a wreck.
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Australian Troops withdraw from vietnam
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Elvis Presely dies. Elvis now has had many impersanations and there is now a compatition of who can be the best impersanatiton.
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In Ash Wednesday, 72 people were killed in Victoria and South Australia
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The Newcastle Earthquake shook the country all the way down to sydney and further.
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Carmen Lawrence became the first Australia Woman Premier. She was the Premier of Western Australia.
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the Rabbit calcivirus disease was accidentlaly released.
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Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania
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Princess Diana Dies in a car crash in a tunnel in Paris.
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Ted Matthews, last riemaining ANZAC dies
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Some of the Australian Troops make their way over to East Timor as peacekeepers.
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Sydney hosts the Olympic Games. The Main mascots were Olly, Syd and Millie. There was also Lizzie.
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Centenary Of Federation
